On 22 February 2002, Brian Prescott-Decie said:
> 1. Has anybody else had this experience? If not, would anybody be
> interested in my writing a mini-HOWTO for this situation or is it too
> unusual to be worth considering?
I tried installing SA as an ordinary user on one system where I do have
root, just to see if it could be done (and because I didn't want to
clutter up /usr/local and /etc if I could avoid it). I got it
sorta-kinda working, but it wasn't great. So I gave in and did it as
root.
Also, a couple of people have written to the list lately having problems
with non-root installations. So yes, I think there is definitely room
for documenting this, and very probably room for improving SA's
installation process to improve it. Go for it!
> 3. In the 1st 24 hours, spamassassin disposed of 35 e-mails correctly
> but kept 6, of which 4 were marginal (points < 5), but 2 showed no
> points at all. Of these, one was a variant Nigerian spam and the other
> contained a *.doc.bat attachment.
SA isn't doing very good at the Nigerian scam lately; it probably needs
a few new patterns to test for it. Might be useful to add recent
variations on the scam to the corpus. Craig?
As for the *.doc.bat thing, SA is not a virus catcher, it's a spam
detector. It can be manipulated into catching a few viruses, but the
overall feeling on this list is that SA should do one thing and do it
well. Adding virus detection might be doable, even easy, but it's scope
creep.
Greg
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